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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-10-22, Page 2- ,...... 1 EXPERIMENT IN LIBERTY o "Look here," exclaimed Gladys, with great eagerness. "This is a most extraor- (Unary thing. It is the MOSS extraer. dame • tIong I leave ever heard of. 1 may as well tell you—I leYSelf had a—a _very similar experience when I went alone'to the Indian Exhibition. A—a strenge mau got into /tourers:Won with nee. He was very Dine looking and agree- able, and—aud—it ended thoe same Nvay as Scar exPerlenee did." "Ditl be kiss you?" "And nodded/ 'And was your roan fair, with blue en mustache" eyes and a °az • "No, dark and °lent shaved." " kb then it wasn'ts the REIMS. But - , what an extraordinary (seinen eucel "Most extraordinary. It only sbows whet these men. are." e, -- "Ysthe wretches. Andand—did You put down tbe aiss ie your report?" e , _ „,,,,, you, ee d e / "N -no. I NV" "" nlj 5`tr'' 5 II- thought it read sufficiently s ro o with- out. But—but—something worse bap- . peeled to ale, Amy. If my experience A y heti—had—ended where emu's die, e should not so much mini. Some , One saw inv man kiss ntel" e011. 1 1 if ll —. ...„ , low c reac u . wile was sue "The last person I could have wished to do so, except my husband. One of my own domestics." ' "I say! How did that happen?" "Well, it chanced to be the Wok's evening out, and by the ntost uuluoky coincideuce in the world she was spend - ing it at the Indian Exhibition with her young man. I-1—was not awarent the time that she had witnessed the—the— unfortunate occurreoce; but this. morn- ing, when i complained to her about the —the—dinner, she spoke to nte most ina- pertinently, and upon my giving her notice she told ute what she had seen, and threatened, unless I withdrew the notice, to report matters to my bus- band I—I—had to give in to thewoman in the end, I was never so humiliated in my life. And the worst of it is she still has it in her power te expose me to —to—Tom." "Oh, dear! That is dreadful. I am sorry for emu, Gladys." "Well, it is incise uncomfortable for nie. Of course, you know, I'm not in the leaet afraid of Tom; but still I shouldn't quite like blin to—to_/' //precisely. Men are so hasty." "And so ewe:von:tine." ° envy make 00 allowances." "And alwaye believe the worst." "Thee comes of judging others by themselvee." "',:es; but we must not blame them tan muth. Look at the matter the other tvey round. We should be righte- may ineensed, ley dear, if we found our hueleinds,. kissing etreuge girls in pieces of palate ainesement—shouldn't wet" el—I—shot:id nee to catall Tom kiss- ing 1 strite,‘ girl lei ti plzice of public t.„ . . ,..,L e. amneensent, or anywhere else," exclaimed'About tilailys, bridling. "And if I caught Robert, he should have geoil remain to remember It" teueeideseeny dear Amy, we occupy a totally (afferent position. We wen Iti$ACCI involuntarily, ° een t our wish." , a.,,, ins "Oie of course. Quite against our wish. "Wo didn't like it" "aimply hated it." "Just so. Whereas, men—the wretches —kiss voluntarily., of their own initito tive, and—wen; of comae, they do not hate it; else they weenen't do it, That makee all the difference." "To be sure it does; I didn't think of that." "But, corning back. to the point, I can't think whet I am to do about cook. I wish you could advise me." 4/I—I—really dont know what to sug- gest. I-1—tell yon tvhat it is. 'Why shouldn't you place yourself in Robert's hands? He's considered very clever at the Bar, and I'm sure he could belp you if anybody could." "Do you think he would." "Oh, I'm certain nf it." "Thee woulct be awfully kind. I clo want a m-1 mean some clever person's assistaneno "Wale look bore. Come beine to tea with me by and by. Robert generally. drops in for a cup of tea at about 5 o'clock, and then you can see him and talk to him confidentially." "And you will back me up, and as- sure your hueband that my—my—little escapade was perfectly harmless?" "Of course I will. But you need nob be afraid of Robert He is strict in his ideas about me, his wife, you know—in feet, ridiculously strict; but he is very easy-going in his ideas about everybody else." • "I'm glad to hear that—the last part of It, I mean. Very vvetl, then,dear, I'll oome hoine vvith you to tea." So shortly after 4 o'clock the t/vo ladies quitted the Aspasla Club and ad- journea to Amy's home --a flat in the •Croinwell road. They had just settled themselves comfortably to the afternoon tea table,when the sound of men's voices laughing and. talking, was heard in the passage outside, and just afterward the master of the flat, accompanied by a friend, entered the drawing -room where the two ladies were seared, Robere the barrister, was a tall, bend- some num, of imposing aspect, with dark hair and a clean-shaven face. "I've brought in a friend," he said, "who is thirsting for a oup of your excel- lent tea. Allow me to introduce—why.— Hilloa! Why—Gacel Lord i--iny dear, e„.._// Robert, the barrister, bad suddenly turned very; pale indeed; his face be- tekened extreme confusion and diemay, He stared angrily, yet shamefacedly, at Gladys, and then turned,deprecatingly,to his wife. "MY dear," be went on, "my dear—I hope you have not believed anything that this —this—young pereon—// But his wife was notlistening to him. Her eyes were fixed, in horror-struck dis- may, upon Robert's friend, who himself seemed by no means at bis ease. Ile was a fele man, with blue eyes and a fiaxeo moustache—a very prepossessing type of the Anglo-Saxon. "How Clare you, sirt" oried Amy, cov- ering ber face with her hands. "'this is —too—too—mean and—and—horrid of you, when it was all your fault, to come and—and-oexpose me laike this." ' "L-1-eave me, you—you ver-r-retchi" murmured Gladye at the Owe ItOMent , ' her vein muffled by the sofa eusnion, in which she had buTied. her lace. "How can you d -d -dare to rem -in -main in _my presenneaifter foreang--literallY forcing— a kiss frorn—o "Oh, .1 sayl" interposed Robert the barrister. "It's too bad of you to filly • that; it is Indeed. Wily, you never re- 'eleted at all, and you—you actually seemed to like it" At this point Amy, suddenly //tarter" round, The shame had alraost vanished from ber look. She was full of righteous, wiiely wrath. She had grasped the shoe- non, "Rebore" she demanded, in an awful voice. "ani—am 1 to understand that it was you who—who kissed and carried an with Gladys in—ID a publio place?" e well my ee„,we . e ee "DonCtry to inaae excuses, sir; , - . . 'a' you, Gladys Oa:eluding upon her unfortu- nate friend), do You mean to say that a-- .: . you let luni kiss von and—you— te, aotually seemed to like it, , Gladys however, was equal to the . ' occasion, for she, too, had now grasped the situatioe. "And you, Amy," she de/needed, fiercely "you dared to entice my hus- / • band to—to— . . „ d • t ti d ' "Nano my ear, no en oe , • stsuce in the Artglo-Saxon, mildly. "I can't say that she entioeci-w" '40an't say that I enticed, .indeed!" retorted Arny, heaving with indignation. „ f 1 h ,, You kilow, yoa a se vvreto — "Am 1 In underetand, Tom affkinse , thundered Robert, the barrister, at thie . „ . point, that eon dared to kiss my who ill a public place?" "And am I to onderstauti, Relent . e . Pilkington," retreated the blue-eyed e. • • " 1 t dared ' P axon, firing up, t la youto - oi ' mblio lace" ss my wile in a it P - . "Darin at," said Robert, the barrister, a you needn't get excited. I didn't anew she was Your w fe, And, besides, I was •• . I t the rules of the Alei- only (terry ng out blades Club." So was I carrying out the rules of „"- Alcibiades Club." .'"El • "And I was only carrying out the . . . Club," ... , rules of the aspasia .said limy, now beginning to whimper. "just what I was doing," soebed al,„.1„, , —44es e• "Do the rules of the •Aepasia Club ee ninel You to undergo .ktssee front "" -- - ?„ d strange men emended Robert the berrister. "Because If so— ,, ' "N no lent that. Onlyto nernetrate t a/ ' .. . i e e - some act of w -w Nvuely n enendenee "-- - -----' I3ut what is the Alcibiades Club? Inever . f , t, , heard of it be ore, ' ques ionect AntY, drvine her tears and again looking 10 - e ' . dienant and enspicions, e , e k I \Neil eta, see my clear," explained ' s / • Hebert, "as you had joined the ASnaSia ee----- —a club whose avowed object is to en- ' . courage the independence of Wives—I and some other diseusted husbands . • - fornted a little olub of our own to SO- co.urage the independence of husbands. We called it the Alcibiades.. And a nenessary condition of membership is that every man in the club should kiss a pretty womae—not bis wife, of course, but 12 8014100041 else's wife, so ineoh the better—at least onee a week, tend—. , • , "Robert," cried Amy, with flashing eves and pantina bosom "if you don't - e ' / leave that—that club at—once sir I - , / / shall get _a divorce." , And if you • don t withdrawyour t.,,,,"ee r.p.,, ' this very (leonine I sball a -lase 'am/ t • - o, go home to inammo,'' threatened Gladys, "Well you see ladiee." answered itob- ' - ' ' ert, the barrister, "we have au axiom in Ile law that no agreement is toad with- tont cansideration.And if wie a/ le A tob "---•'- -- withdraw from the Alcibiades—for I ' . . have no dount that my friend jiffkins will back me up in this—You Intiet . . . ,-, , withdraw from the Aspasia. lame is the consideration NvOioli we demand. What do 7012 SPYP' , * * * 8 * * It ended In both the ladies resigning their mentherbisp of the Aspneia, ;lift- abis and Pilkington also threw over the Alaibindes—not a very difficult step, since the so-called olub had neN'er eon- Slated of any nitre members than these MO. "I say," observed Robert, on meetleg Toni a few days later, "weenanagoatleae little affair very neatly, didn't we?" "Prime!" assented the other, "Bub lank here," inquired the burls- ter, droppiug his jooular tone, and speak- ing rather anxiously, "my—my—little woman didn't—tlidn't really draw you on to kiss her, (31(1 she?" "Nota bit 01 11, old man. She objected strongly to the liberty. And my Nvife, now—she—she—didn't renlly seem—seem —to—to like being kissed hy you, , did she?" "'Incredible as it may appear," con- fessed Robert, the barrister, surveying his comely persun in an adjacent pier glass, "she did—not!" THE OTTER AND HIS PREY. — IL DA11?)" THE FOOLISH DAIRYMAN. A ataturalist Watelies HnimiCanture a ftab- bit on theTH 1 441 may claim some right," says Mr. la, R. Frances, "to speak conflaently of the otter' premed's:1gs wbon in pursuit f his nrev alone I was the first pease 5 e '' 13 to record, from the „testimony of intelli- gent eye -witnesses, the eourse of his deal - hag with bis viotims, both by land and ..,• , . by Neater. It se 'unlucky that Mater Fish- er, who wri es on stus su jeo s 't h b• twith the keenest interest of a sportsman, should not have seen this testimony, which would have saved him the grata. toes error of denying tbat the otter seeks 1 is rev o land as well as in the Nvater, 1 „13., - 11 .. , - . o doubt tnis errot has been eneonr- aged by the position of Lutra's eyes, . . whioh lonk upward from above a rather flat snout, Naturalists at once inferred that tnis arrangement was for the con- _ venlenoe of the otter in seizing his slippery victims frona below. This being ' b demonstrably a mistake we are tempted to suggest that this upward gaze enables Mtn in his long divee to keep in view the eourse of the eddies and the outline of the bank—mattera whith closely conw • cern iniu. But, of course, this is mere coujeeture. We know, however, that whether on land or in the water, he seizes his prey from above, infixiug al - most in half a moment his four claws, • •e. - and naincumg with eager haste what is desigeea to be a fatal bite. When he was Watehed while seizing a rabbit on the bank of the Mole he seemed Dot to have bitten deep enouga, and dragged , . . , nis victim, piteously squealing, into the • river, where he deliberately drowned it, and then ate it at his leisure, washiag the flesb from time to time, so as to sug- gest that the warm blood was oVerstrong for his digestion. "Ths Ihe observer on this occasion, whose attention was first drawn by the cries 01 of the rabbit, was fortunately himself a master of otter hounds, used to watching the stealthy manenvers of the enemy. He had with him a sharp fox terrier, and, though on the opposite side of the stream to that on which the otter was dining, rather expected the latter to make himself scarce when the dog CP- peered. But the marauder showed awns- lee coolness; he dropped into the sto'coun raised his bead above water a few yards Lom the bank. and watthed the terrier's proceedings. Having middle(' , . , . nunself that the dog had no taste for anything beyond dry shikar, he retuned tranquilly to his di; ilea Here we had a depredator bold as well as cunning, and obviouely a clean feeder. Of course, I do nnt assume that the. otter usually, or even frequently, seeks his prey on land, • , I am content to know that he is capable of doing so 'as occasion serves.' and that in such a case, at alt events, he dues not seize his victim from below. . the same date at which this curioue rabbit incident eves reported to 'me, I received from the same neighbor- ion an tumuli , equally we au ien 1 - 1 a t11 ti t* catea, of the otter's modus operand' when it pursuit of the fish, which, We may sates „mune, form hia principal diet. A pike, guessed at some 7 pounds, was soon baseieg under an overhanging tree on the Mole. Nearly above him ran a ban bough. Along that hough an ot- ter was seen to creep—I wish I could find sonie apter word to expressthe prow- ler's stealthy, sinuous movement—till he was close above the pike, down on whose back be dropped or slid, at °nee fastenthe all his claws in the fish, rind, as I Tun; believe, though the spectator's eye could not note the movement with oertainty, fixing the long grip of his jaws just over the junotion of his skull and spine." , Why He/ Hail Naught Hut worm', and Neither Comfort Nor Shekels. la 0Aanthd ait otiearmtaeintompatinssdtiligagtedinathwe eisiixn cubits deep. Its walls were of stone, and when be had built the wall for 18 enbits he had no more stone. And he sayeth to himself: It will do, and fisaisheth it off , with a few boards. • cwaraasehead greAant dflothodt,hieentdeutthhe mbootnirtdhs there d el ell caved in, and it cost away an the NV Mill many shekels before be could • get Mw f the The same water again from e well. naan buyeth a 00W, and be meth two cows, one that giveth inuoh milk and one that giveth not so much. And he buyeth the one that giveth not so nauch inilk for he sayeth she oosteth not so nanny sbek.els, When he feedeth the °ow he givetli her . , feed, f 1 / th feed is not not/ much or le stne Plenty and sheagRedtteshtlet Weinlolugdlo:. And when be buyeth a milk pail he yet a a area one, bu 1 11 for he sayeth the (low giveth not math milk. And it came to pass when he washeth ktihnedahlleill:apyeatihl tihbalititliliedow.ateAr jawdassvnbeetnhohte, ssohlelkeethis,thioerbtubtetebrultiteergwetatsetnhangootodoa. any About this time the wife of this roan sayeth unto her lord: Give unto me shekels that Inlay buy myself raimertt, for that Nvhich I wear is like unto naos- quite netting for holes.. And the num sayeth unto his wife: The weather is warm and thy raiment will do, for 1 have no shekels to give untie thee. Then the wife of that man answered him and said: 0, foolish man! Dost thou not know that unless thou doeth Nvith thy niiglit . what thy hand lindeth to do that thy labor is lost? For want of two 'cubits of stone in thilily.yeNet jelllotolivie ltilatwgeirveetillonsto,t maYuhoelial Inthiouut thou wert building but 18 cubits. And when thou giVeth bee net enough foods, h h t It b t 1 th and se en t on a es Do care 0 e milk, thou evert doing the same. 0, fool - ish maul as for want of two cubits of stone thy well was lost, so for want of two sbekels in the price of thy cow, end for want of two immures of meal, and for want of two moments of work is all thy profit in thy butter lost, and thou hest no shekels.—National Stook.unebeori." man. DAIRY MANAGEMENT. of Milk iu prize offered the best Comfortable • requisite, and illustra- we Y5 of our stable below 20 - .i. when not stanchion is shonlv - - mor - festenea the slides 'easily ,This gives ad keeps 18 enchee then one a partition partition "Wen Amy, this is a pleasant our- deal" "•Ditto, dear old eladys. Fancy our meting lame, too, of all the places in the rorld I" ' "Yes; but we always had a spies of adependenoe in our respective compost. Los, So our both happening to joir his club was nothing so very' iinprob• ble, after all. .Are you living in town?" "Yes; my husbaud is at the Bar, you "Alt! I was very interested to read the nnotracement of your marriage in the opera You alwaYs used to say that you meld never marry—if you remember." "-So did you. And yet you lost no time n following my example, it seems'," "True; / was like the men in the Honeymoon,' my dear:— 'I made a Wry silly vow tut was not quite so foolish as ba keep .1,,,, ,, t" "Do you find matrionmy agree with •on?" "04, yes; eapitallv. I go raY aWn m'a7 : bit, of eallfall. V-111 not an absolute lave to my husband." "Itao more AM I. I put down my foot rom the first Robert was inclined to re absurdly exacting," , "Did he make a fuss about your join- ng this club?" "Rather! But I insisted 00 having ay own way. Did your husband raise bjections?" . "Plenty. However, I overruled them leo "That's right, In fact, it strikes me, Iladye,that though we are both married, are, nevertheless, doing full credit to !ur early principles." "Just so. After all, the being married r not married is a more detail. It. is he being free, or not free, that really waters." "And If one was not married, one not belong to this very excellent lub?" "No. And wbat a mise that would be'. tb, thank goodness! Here comes our The two ladies engaged in the above lalienie were seated at a small table in he rlinin:?, ealon of the Aspaeitt Clete IN-ex:et/4 has heard of this institution, vitieil is one of the newest and most sue- essiul of hitlies' clubs in London. It ras eseeelaily founded to encourage and 051c1 tae ir,,,,tima of married women; rid a, maerons only are enema() for oleo- Eligible Lan . Its motto ie descriptive and char- cterietie: "Liberty, Equality, matern. :y." Awl the prineiplee wbich it upholds re the nioet etivaneed principles of rifely ernanelpetion. Nor are these prIn- iplue n mere matter of WOrilS.. a simple ueetion of theory. Tee conditions of tentherelalp aro stringent, and are rigid- r enforced. Tho founder,/ of the olub ad no belief whatever in faith without rorks. They required the members of Ito Aspasia to sbow their faith by their roree—to act, not merely to subscribe ), their creel cif emancipation. Puree/ant to this requirement each minher agreed to perform at least once a the month some detailed act of wifely edweendence; and stuth oat she was blittea to evened in a book of blank arms—provileal by the club for the per- ose—and at the month's end to send in er form to the secretary, duly signed nd filled in with particulars, If the teretary did not censitler that the aot, r act& recorded were sufficiently asser- Lve of wifely liberty, she subinitted the trm to the committee, who, if tint setts- ed, would cell upon the defaulting lember for an explanation. It will thus e Seen that a very strict eye was kept y tee Aspaela upon its members. "How long have you been 41200101101 f the cluh,Glatlys?" her friendanquired, s they disenssed their luneheon, "Onle a fortnight, dear. How long ave youe" "Rather less than a month." ".And have you done your first task, O enjoined by the regulations?" "Well—yes; I did it only last even- "And wbat form did it take, dear?" "I went alone to the Indian Exhibition fter dinner." "By the piper, Gladys (expletives were ether encouraged than otherwise in the ..spasia Club), what every extraordinary eing," Amy exclaimed, with a half %ugh. "It just shows what kindred pixies you and I are, 1 didnay task only hree nights agn; and I wens alone to he Indian Exhibition after dinner." "Yon don't say so. And how did you et one" Amy hesitated a minute, and looked ether embarrassed. "I-1.—," she began. "At least—well, may as well confess to you, Gladys lee—my—visit resulted in a rather un- utunate occurrence," "What was that?" inquired her friend, mking interested. "Why—why—" said Amy, lowering en voice, "I was quite alone, you see, nd—and—" "Yes? yes?" 4'1—I—didn't know my way about ere/ well, and—and—I bappened to ask —a— gentlemen if be would kindly irect me to Elysium. He said that he ras going in that direction bimself, and hat he would act as my guide. He—he -was'quite a gentleman, and seemed Pay agreeable and—and—nice looking. Lnd—and —I could not very well refuse Is civil offer." "Go on—go on," interjected Gladys agerly. "W -w -well, he walked by my side as tr as Elysium, and was xnost polite and least:tit I—I—eounitot very well help elking to him, you know, and—and—' "Of course not Bin wbat happened? am dying to hear." "He—he—kept vvith rae for quite a mg time; and he was really,verv nice aoleing and amusing, and 1 had found' b rather slow by myself, and—and—al- ogether I saw no harm." "Why, slanuld you, my dear? But how id it endY" "We—we—strelled about Elysium for :early an hour, and—well, then he said le must be going. He—he—began to— o—talk dr-dreadthi non -nonsense ehen; aid he'd never appreciated the name tlysium before, and. as he wished me eiod niglit, be put his arm around my valet, and—oh, Gladysi—be—he—kissed AMy spoke aimed in a whisper. Her beekt were the color of a geranium. "What cheek of him!" ejaculatad. nadys, whoee face gave the impreseion hat she was full of a certain. suppressed xcitement. "And. yet," she added, "it rill look very well in the report, espeoi- 117 tho Itit." "I—I—ib may have heen weak of me, ut—but—I didn't, put the kiss in the oport," faltered 'AraY. Prize Iessay on the Production • winter, Eugene Rogers..woo first by the Michigan Farmer for essay on the above sueject . eniarters he placed as the first and we give the desoription tion of bis barn leas We keen the temperature ab 30 to 85 deerees and never degrees in 'the' mosetmseenytere7 fled the cows eat and do better too Warin. We use a single with chain tie. The stanchion 'a pole about three inches •througli tised into a sill and securely at the top. The obain tie goesaround nook witlaa la.rge ring that up and down the stanchion. the cow much more comfort her just as clean. We put the first stanchion from, the wall or partition. and every three feet. We then put between every other cow. The IIIII k44$1i eoI el el 71111. NItIlklk-w•-,. 1 lbiltN `N.,,,N ‘11,-,7 ! a I\ a0a1111,e' COW STABLD. b feed rack. d a, chain Ile; , , face to feed grain throitteigohn.saoonneled.otted, lines show where part manger; 0, , ,. . should flt tight should not anon hack. niore than 18 inones .We lu175 a drop behind inches, Tbe floor stand is five feet from T ' . The manger is 18 an eight inch space to feed grain through, This stable tuts . t 1 thina would be Water is as necessary Produetinn of winter for the averaeo farmer with plentiful of it a ture. c OW car! A • ellea to stand in P ' drink through the , ee, .,,, lics eh tle it ye:eel t ' • ' ' • ' well in the feed alley. , ileac 170 victeigterie/ cf,sr,oihnii them with water wa-Vner' (lona care is what run. ;Mile, feed and be sure not to too cold. We only enough to arrange temperature is below How to Butter is never so within one week from the churn, It possesses ifillit7011111, walnatich aSeOlirpliiiasIs'es present thereafter; properly made can in geed order for Get the butter soon as possible after it firmly in gallon Thee° containiug preferable. When ask the seller, ae he eaoh, to number them, of the amount of readily be kept. Pack tie a round piece of over the top and place into a new, large crock. butter made at different same jar, but store can be filled at one Make strong brine, the water will absorb, gallon a teaspoonful teaspoonful of granulated the brine and skim cold strain through into the crook. Add time to time to keep inches in depth. the crook to protect this place a wooden light, Do not keep the door, even if it is a platform. if possible, derneath the crock beton of air. This forming on the bottom Several smaller which to store the the large crook. To use a bath of hot lime bob soda water.—N. in the manger, between from the the on which inanger . inches wide, under the many advantages, appreciated as the milleand tn supply of the right not do het. a zero ice. I 'mina — "' ce we The , tt 11 ws onwicall 1 ten or fifteen tells in and water leave them leave ours the stable, e0 degrees. the stanchion. cows the to We feed by feed it is his tempu- best if wind e water , haNe a temperature ilk% z110evstt7p supply degrees the regularly, out out when and cows of six cows drop, left rack an all. in the hard cows Qom- and • in drive y- long when long the used leaves and is butter and as path jars. are of record can full, eloth up -path the that salt eaoh and,a Scald When cloth from two over over the cellar on un- oircu- mold in use thus the the frone pro- hand elleot- all have dirt, the labor- pans large to in of they with a milk. ' (sows this Th , ere dairy You in a and 6ore the eds ., _ Restraint for a kinking Co NV. The device depicted berewitb for breaking the Itieking habit of a cow consists 0/ a piece of thalfainch rope tied italund the near leg above the hook, to at, ea -a .1 / '--,, 01 ele, ai ` - ...- •e,.. j tt „en ea el awe( , ,,,.. a I e.e.s..,c,...7,,,o a-oar—we -.- DEVICE TO PREVENT RIMING. Poch flutter. good as the. time then indeseribable away be kept months. in good churning or half -gallon five or six the jars maras the so that butter in the jars strong, it bottom Do times only those churning. using adding of saltpeter sugar. It thoroughly. a wet more the jars Tie a thick from dust, cover to crock on a cement with to insure will prevent, of the crooks may jars rather clean jarsand water Y. Farmer. when it a deli:late but sweet condition and pounds are bought weight a oath jar level thick side not in /jars all the to thick brine covered cloth and exclude the one, buts slate free crock. be used than crocks, or strong ' curial behind the off leg, then around 44 11(1 letween both lege leayin an end 1 Isle /slough to bold Or, tie to trie milkino sttleeltwhil-e milking proceed& The cove Is fleet stauchioned or tied by•the head. Effect of Debora I un-. An experiment station reports tbe fol- lowing on deborning:— "During the year 1895 sixteen steers wore dehorned. In this work four seta tvere taken off with the saw, the other twelve with clippers. With six of the steers extra care was taken to fill the cavity of the stub horn wlth oakum, saturated with a weak solution of carbolic acid, anti over this a bandage of muslin was secured by fastening under the throat Six others were treated Nvith the oakum and noel bub lel% without the bandage. The other four were given no attention after the horns were clipped. off. The herd after dehorning was trirned out together and all treated alike for the five weeks following, with results which seemed to justify the following opinions: The cattle dehorned with the saw suffered more than those dehorned with the clippers; possibly not more in the same length of time, bob certainly AR much for a period of time almost twice as long. The saw did a little smoother job than the clippers, bed there was so little difference in the ap- pearance of the stubs that only an ex - pert would be able to tell by which im- element the dehorning had been done. The animals not treated after clehoriu ing_ apparently did as well as those that were given all possible protection, but the sores did not heel quite so rapidly. The extra care of bandaging the stubs did not seem to be 'of tiny marked ad - vantage, but tho applicatinn of oakum and the snlution of carbolic acid was, I believe, well wurth tbe trouble a applying." Sliort Sermon for Students. Twenty-five years ago the following sermonette to students was printed on the last page of a popular copy book published by T. J. Day, bookseller, etc., Guelph. lt has influenced the lives of many of the pupils of the publics schools for good, and bus created in their minds healthy hatred for the senseless and sometimes superstitious use of the world "luck": "You are the architects of your own fortunes. Rely upon your OiV31 strength Of body and soul. Take for 70 ur motto: Self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry, and inscribe on your ban- ner; luck is a fool—pluck is a hero. Don't tate too 'much advice; keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of cone- mending is to take a fair share of the work. Don't prattale too much humility; you can't get above your level. Put pota- toes in a cart over a rough road, and the small potatoes go to the bottom. Think well of yourself—strike out—as- sume your position—fire above the mark you intend to Mk Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Energy, invinoible determination, with a right motive, are the levers that move the world. Don't deceive. Don't tattle. Be in earnest. Be self-reliant Be generous. Read the papers. A.dvertise your lensiness, Love your God and fellow man. Love truth and virtue. Love your country and obey the laws." , SCIENTIFIC BURGLARY. A Gas .Erigine Used to Operate a Steel Saw. The modero burglar is a scientist and inventor in his way. Recently a new era in safe -breaking and ether branches of the cracksmau's art has opened, and the famous jimmy, so long rampant on the successful burglar's coat of arms,is to be superseded by more convenient labar-sav- ing tools, In Marseilles a gang 01 ingenious cracksmen entered a banker's office armed with a steel saw of the newest construction ana a handy litele gas en- gine. There was no need for the exercise of muscle, nor was there any necessity for a gnod strong wrist at the saw, aS there was at one time in the annals of famous rohberiee. The little engine was started, tho save t in the roper lace aud the cminec- Pu- P P / tions niade. Seating themselves serenely npon a couple of chairs Dear at ' hand, these modern buglers watched the true and rapid work of their appliances. The big safe might have resisted for hours the force of huinan hands, bat the saw, impelled by the engine, ib meld not stand against The stout iron safe promptly yielded up its contents of over $40,0110 worth of gold and bonds, and in a quarter of the time it would have taken to have committed tbe robbery uoder the old conditions the burglars were well out of the building with their bouty. Advantages of Separators, The Indiana experiment station summarizes the reasons for separator:— "The writer believes that every who keeps five or more cows, object of making as much butter them as possible, who makes butter, and who is interested gressive dairy, would find int separator a money -making Other people are likely to be disappointed if they buy a hand separator. ually skims the milk, thereby the create: or fat. Where impurities fallen into the milk, such as manure, etc., the, separator them, so that their influence °ream is much diminished ----- _ • separator cream is tree from which often occur in cream by hand and cause trouble - making The separator is also • saying. device when one beoomes with its use and care. . The necessity for oaring for and cans is done away with degree. The amount of fere° run a hand separator is not great to tire an average man seriously." using person with gllt-edge in the naaohine. It saving hairs,. removes on In summer , nada °eras, skimmed in butter a familiar many in a required enough , Fresh iMiry Items. The Illinois board of health requires tbe cleaning of dairy cows daily. Late fall calves mean winter dairying with fresh t cows and high ptioes for better. The sale of oleomargarine counter- felting butter in color is prohibited in 32 states. , Salt is becoming'unpopular in butter, largely bemuse it is Suspected of hiding some defect. The'separator not only gives more and better butter, but leaves more milk suited tor the calf. Aerate your milk where the air is purest oply, just as you give the.00ws the purest water to be had, Good bun a s pure breed are very gen- eral mow and bull calves of similar. t s eIMP are comparatively cheap. ' I Bells' tempers are often ruined by. teasing. They should see only their Inaa-; tera with stick:and rig at that. ' jerseys are still the cows for nreani mid butter, but Holsteins are i f o av r ' ' forecheese and for nailk for market.— N. Y. Produce Review. . Christmas ir, Surnnier. The solar tropical year contains 865.- 2422419 days, so that a cycle of four, hundred years should strictly be made up of 146096.89676days. According to the actual arrangement each four hundred years does in fact contain 146,097 days; three out of the four lee') years being omitted which form multiples of 100. Thus the exact error occurring in each 400 years is .10324 of a day, the - year be- ing so much in arrear. To find the time required before Christmas will occupy the opposite side of the yearly journey round the sun, we have merely to divide 182.5 days by .10324, • a,nd multiply the quetient by 400, which gives a result of 707/090 Yeare odd. If then the Present arrangement is unaltered, and the obser- enlace of Christmas lasts so long, we shall, in about seven hundred thousand years, be keeping it in sunatner. Cause and Effect. They were talking of a certain lady who recently took up the wheel. "What a painful expression she wears," said the first speaker. . . "I've notiocia. it," said the other; "what does it indicate—fear?" "I hardly know. It struck me yester. day that she looked as if she knew the devil was close behind her." "Wes she riding alone?"- • "No, she Was on the tandem with her huabancl." "e see." mushrooms lfxtraordinary. ' . . . There was on n a few daysn ' exhibitio . since, at A. Gerota/ restaerant in this city, a remarkable closter of mushrooms. The bunch was over a.foot in diameter, • h cl, 'd t 1 d weig, e seven pounds an con a ne over noes rooms, a 20 edible h' 11 ' f rem a COMM= root—or more properly, eine° shrooms do not have roots in the mell , ordinary sense of that word, om- from a c mon mass of mycelium. Resides the fully developed growths were hundreds of "buds" and youngsters. Another , . i let of the 'cluster was that an Peoul-a , Y _ re 3' of the stalks were bifurcate and bore two ead of the berme" one heads inet , . The growth was found in a Buffalo Cellar where mushimoins are cultivateci.—Buf- falo Exnress e • s - puled Apple Tarts. • Stew the apples, sweeten them and flavor with mace and cinnamon; add the .,grawn dgrated i cl f 1 If juice an r n o _ one pia ' the applet lack flavor. Line pie dishes with a t • fill with ar 1 I w bP.e e. wit t PreP et 00/PP:s, and age until the, eir a are tear ug ly done. Bars of paste actoss the top. Laying the Foundation. The foundation of your 'dairying will depend upon the your cows atid the tre,atmeet ' rubies at your hands. Select the recognized milk form; diseosition to convert food , b • Avoid uying animals with . . • ' to lay on flee!). While scone • • have proveb excellent:dairy animals, , • , a c , e ,is the exception ° ul not th ' • ' is as much difference between cow and a beef cow as there a draft horse and a trotting would not enter at draft speed contest With trotting aninadls expect him to win a place; • should you expect to gain stmoess dairy by using cews of the -. - .re or with. an inclination in tbat —Rural World. ..e. success quality. that cows cows with into a tendency beefy • • 1 iu e. ' e is between horse. horse no in beet b direction. . Tuberculosis In Dairy Herds. . The Connectie.ut th I' k au ori ies are ma - ing ooMmendable progress in the work of inspecein th d ' h d f tl t t g e earv er s o le s a o. ' 'I ' One 01 the commissioners applied the tuberculin test to 106 cows in the town of Washington and 18 f tI o , lent were con- demned.and Jellied. Ten in one herd sip - ' • peered to be "in excellent physical eon- : cliiton," but the authorities showed '"tbut they were all "well defined casee" of tuberculosis. More than 500 -cows have been "tested" in Litchfield, a,nd applies- tions for the inspertion of 400 More in that neighbothood and.of about 1,000 r,int other parts of the. state are on file. The','„ ereater part of the work during the141514 - - ' - ' 5 two or three months has been done in , . - - - 1 the cl strict f eon which a art of the 1 i p , milk supply of New York oity and Brook, ,- Ivo is obtaiued. 16alioons. One pint of milk, one pint of flour, three eggs, one saltspoen of salt; separ- ate the eggs, beat them • light; tnix with the milk, stir hi the flour gradually; beat it well; whiek the wbite until stiff and dry; buttee small cups, fill half feta bake in a quick oven, and send to the table hot. Eat Nvith wine or nun's butter. Ey tlie Radiance of God. - Keep yout conduct abeeast of yourcon- smart Ca an . . nn ' d very - soon your conscienee will be illumined by the radiance of ' God.—W. M. Taylor, D. D. ‘ , .A newspaper editor in Texas has mar- $1 000 Ode and a sorrovting • ried , ..,,„ , , blotter d,ds "PIO 5e/exchange," a ' . . . , a 1 41 21 41 a 1 a 22 11 21 51 81 11 33 11 11 1 a a 11 .14 14 141 -g 21 „iteene